Ordinary Wonders: Stories of Unexpected GraceThe Deceitful Onion Bulb. A Blessing to Smuggle. The Conjuror of Rain. In this collection of stories as whimsical as their titles, award winning author Olesia Nikolaeva poignantly recounts life for Christian believers in Soviet and post Soviet Russia. In a manner reminiscent of the bestselling "Everyday Saints" these tales reveal a common theme the subtle, sometimes imperceptible movement of Divine Providence at work in the lives of saints and sinners

he rejoiced rather than despaired

Presented here for the first time in English

Author: Elizabeth Crispina Johnson

The book Orthodox Spirituality examines issues concerning the spiritual life without the author embarking on a full and detailed analysis

Akathist Hymn to Our Venerable Father Moses

an alternative using 15 wonderworking icons and their troparia

2019) and Blueprints for the Little Church: Creating an Orthodox Home (AFP

inviting the faithful to encounter biblical events in their own liturgical experience

“Now at the close of my life I have decided to talk to my brethren of things I would not have ventured to utter earlier

free of hypocrisy

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sick and you visited me